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->''"It's 2015, and a game that looks and plays like it's from 1999 is one of the biggest, most exciting, and visually-polished game of the year."''-->-- '''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ml3EdUJJOPw George Weidman]]''' on ''VideoGame/PillarsOfEternity''

Media produced in an intentionally old-fashioned style, designed with the intentional appearance of being decades older than is actually the case.

Whereas {{steampunk}} involves a ''setting'' that is [[RetroUniverse faux-retro]], this trope is entirely one of [[PaintingTheMedium how the medium is painted]]-- entirely stylistic, in other words. Sound is intentionally scratchy, marks of damaged reel, and faded appearance are common in Film or television. Some films go out of their ways to open with studio {{vanity plate}}s pulled directly from the era that they depict (See LogoJoke for that).

Retraux may involve DeliberatelyMonochrome, AntiquatedLinguistics, or SilenceIsGolden. If it's a supposedly past speculation about TheFuture or TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture (i.e., the present), it will inevitably invoke {{Zeerust}} or RaygunGothic. The outdated nature of the presentation often overlaps with StylisticSuck.

In video games, retraux is common in freeware and indie projects for practical reasons -- pixelated sprites and {{chiptune}}s are a lot simpler to make than quality 3D assets and orchestral studio recordings. Another emerging artform is the VideoGameDemake, in which a game is adapted for an earlier-generation platform.

Compare GenreThrowback, where a production is made evoking old-style works but with modern production values (in contrast, something that's Retraux can be mistaken for an ''actual'' old-style production). Can overlap with NewerThanTheyThink when done especially well. See also RetrauxFlashback when this is combined with an ArtShift in an otherwise more modern looking work.

[[folder:Advertising]]* A [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrqnmgySrF4 commercial for Stella Artois]] purports to be footage of the 1964 World Trade Fair. It's got a film grain aesthetic, jazzy Sixties music, period costumes, and as an added bonus, they invoke TONS of early-Sixties {{Zeerust}}.* Mountain Dew (a citrus-flavored soda) once did a faux-Fifties commercial, which included the [[IncrediblyLamePun corny pun-based]] catchphrase "It's Dew-riffic!" and a authentic-sounding jingle that could have been written about Dew at the time (the drink [[OlderThanTheyThink did exist in the '50s]], and it had a "hillbilly moonshine" theme). Plus, the TotallyRadical teenagers from the "modern" commercials appear in black and white, dressed in [[{{Nerd}} bow ties, suspenders, and pocket protectors]] and shouting "Neato!"* Commercials for Dr. Pepper 10 include a mountain man character shot with blurry film stock and outdated music meant to evoke the old ''Grizzly Adams'' television show and similar nature-themed shows of the era.* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oxec0dZvPOs This Brazilian Volkswagen New Beetle commercial]] features reactions of people in TheSeventies to the 2013 model.* Progressive Insurance's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAw2TXsgBbY "After School Special" commercial]] has footage and distorted sound as if it's made in the 1970s, plus a retro effect to the company's logo.* ''American Pickers'' did a commercial entirely in 8-bit NES style. Considering the premise of the show, it's quite fitting. Interestingly, the music seems to use the extra channels of the Konami [=VRC6=] chip with Sunsoft's trademark DPCM bass.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Anime & Manga]]* ''[[Anime/MartianSuccessorNadesico Gekiganger]] [[Anime/{{Gekiganger 3}} 3]]''. (More so in the actual show than in the {{OVA}}.)** Interestingly enough, according to WordOfGod, despite its 1970s-esque appearance, it was actually made in the 2090s, which means it's an example of this even ''in-story''.* ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' has an art style rather reminiscent of giant robot anime from the 1970s.* ''Manga/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'', especially the opening. {{Lampshaded}} in the episode about Detuning (doing less than your best): Among the examples for detuning is "Deliberately adding imperfections to give the impression of an old film." followed by a cue card saying "This show does it too".* The Creator/ADVFilms trailer for ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' has narration mimicking the style of voice-over used on old-fashioned newsreels. (However, the anime itself doesn't use many {{Retraux}} effects outside of a few scenes in the opening and the grainy episode title cards and eyecatches.)* ''Manga/AirMaster'' - The anime version ran from 2003-2004 but wouldn't look out of place in early 90s. It's probably an AffectionateParody.* ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' intentionally uses a drawing style and character design reminiscent of anime from the 1970s, despite being made in 1998. One UsefulNotes/{{DVD}} release for the show also has the [=DVDs=] looking like [=LPs=]; the DVD covers emulated packaging for jazz albums of the 1950s with a single dominant color on the front and a text-heavy back cover.** So does the UsefulNotes/LaserDisc [[http://www.lddb.com/search.php?search=Cowboy+Bebop&sort=title&format=ld releases.]]* Mostly averted in ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'', but in a scene where a character explains his world view that the world exists for his amusement, the show [[PaintingTheMedium briefly looks like a scratchy film with low-quality sound to mimic movies from the era.]] And like the ''Manga/ChronoCrusade'' example above, the American trailer intentionally invokes film from this era by being DeliberatelyMonochrome, using a "news reel" style narration and backed up by a tinny piano score similar to what a silent film would have.* ''Anime/{{Kaiba}}'' looks like a sixties children's anime.* In ''Manga/LuckyStar'', Meito Anisawa and the other Animate store employees are drawn in a style reminiscent of anime (especially SuperRobot anime) that's some decades older than ''Lucky Star''. There's even a visual effect that makes their shaded areas be of non-uniform color tone and change their color tone slightly over time, simulating the look of cel animation.** That's because the Animate employees were around long before the ''Lucky Star'' manga was even created, plus they were designed by ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' character designer, Kazuhiko Shimamoto* Many of the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' works set in the Universal Century deliberately try to maintain an consistent art style reminiscent of the 1980s, right down to the EightiesHair. If you look closely, you'd notice that the characters of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Gundam Unicorn]]'' wouldn't look out of place in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]].''** There's also [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-UIZPXSjwbjI/U0wn7m-zKqI/AAAAAAAFyzY/-WDpoNFxZXc/s1600/112233.jpg this poster]] for last episode of the ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamUnicorn Unicorn]]'' OVA, which calls to mind both old ''StarWars'' art from TheEighties and a similar poster for ''[[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Zeta Gundam]].'' * The 2004 version of ''[[Anime/{{Gigantor}} Tetsujin 28]]'' deliberately captures the aesthetics and atmosphere of [[TheFifties 1950s Japan]], right down to the soundtrack.* In 2012, Bandai recreated and updated their Emotion division's first logo (an '80s logo, mind you) for modern audiences, ''complete with a recreation of the logo's jingle.''* The anime adaptation of ''[[Anime/{{Bakemonogatari}} Monogatari Second Season]]'', features the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWKfGd2ZH68 Kogarashi Sentiment OP ]], part of which is drawn in the style of 90s shows and juxtaposed with a more modern style. Bonus points: it features a tacky duet by Senjoughara and Kaiki, the latter of whom is terribly out of tune.* ''[[Anime/KillLaKill Kill la Kill]]'''s art style is evocative of older anime despite airing from late 2013 to early 2014.** Same with the NinjaSlayer ONA, using LimitedAnimation techinqiues that ran rampant during 80's and 90's anime as well as being in ''Square Standard Defination.'' rather than in HD Widescreen.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Comic Books]]* It's not unknown for a flashback or 'never before told' story to be drawn in the style of a certain time period. An excellent example is ''The Age of the Sentry'' miniseries, whose [[ComicBook/TheSentry titular hero]] was supposedly Marvel's Franchise/{{Superman}} {{Expy}} in the 1960s, but was forgotten by all of humanity until his "return" in 2000. The flashback scenes are drawn to resemble 1960s Creator/JackKirby and 1980s Creator/FrankMiller. The front cover even has a fake "Approved by the [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Cosmic Code]] Authority" logo.* ''Comicbook/TheAvengers'' #1 1/2 resembles an issue from the 60's, and parodies some of the ads.* IronMan and Doctor Doom once travelled back in time to a New York City circa the Silver Age (thirty years earlier in real time, perhaps ten or twelve in terms of Earth-616 chronology). The art was drawn and colored to resemble the comic book art of that period.* Marvel's Flashback event has covers somewhat resembling older covers in terms of style and layout, but still has plenty of 90's influence.* Creator/AlanMoore's ''[[ComicBook/NineteenSixtyThree 1963]]'' looks and reads like a classic Marvel comic (complete with Moore spouting fake Creator/StanLee style hyperbole and including fake '60s-style ads).* DC Comics Retroactive event features covers and stories set in different comic eras.* The [[MilestoneCelebration 25th anniversary]] (1983) ''ComicBook/{{Legion Of Super-Heroes}}'' story had multiple segments that took place in pastiches of different parts of the Legion's history, using the original logos, original artists, and plot elements based on stories of the time. A weaker version of this was done for the 30th anniversary in 1988.* The humorous one-shot ''Franchise/{{Superman}}[=/=]Franchise/{{Batman}}: World's Funnest'' featured the two [[GreatGazoo magical imps]] Mr. Mxyzptlk and Bat-Mite accidentally destroying countless alternate universes, most of them drawn in the style of a certain artist--Curt Swan, Sheldon Mayer, C. C. Beck, Creator/JackKirby, Alex Ross, [[{{DCAU}} Bruce Timm]] and so on.* The Orson Randall one shot issues of ''ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist'' are often drawn in the style of pulp era artists.* The ''{{Franchise/Transformers}}'' April Fool's comic ''[[ComicBook/TransformersShatteredGlass Shattered Expectations]]'' was done in the style of the Generation 2 comics - drawn similar to Derek Yaniger and full of [[AuthorCatchPhrase Furmanisms]].* A mild example in ''ComicBook/UltimateSpiderMan: Requiem'' where in a flashback, the art goes back to Bagley's style, rather than the current penciller for the series, Immonen.* A ''ComicBook/{{Stormwatch}}'' issue concentrating on the history of century-old [[ComicBook/TheAuthority Jenny Sparks]] depicts her in each decade as she would have appeared in the comics of the time, with the 80s flashback in particular being a clear homage to ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}''.* Another one from Creator/AlanMoore, ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'' has flashbacks with an art style that corresponds with the time those flashbacks happened. This is justified in-story; from Supreme's perspective, his recollections of (for example) [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] events have such a simple, rough style to them because it was such a long time ago and everything seemed so simple back then.* Another flashback example, ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' Prog 2010 features a ''Comicbook/JudgeDredd'' story that starts on Christmas Eve 2098 (the first published Judge Dredd story takes place in 2099), which is presented in the style of an early 2000AD strip complete with black and white art and yellowing pages. The second half of the story takes place in the "present day" of Christmas Eve 2131, and switches over to a modern style colour strip.* ''Whatever Happened to the World of Tomorrow?'' by Brian Files is about a boy who is a fan of the [[ShowWithinAShow Comic Within A Comic]] Space Age Adventures featuring Captain Crater And The Cosmic Kid. Four different issues of the comic (spanning the 1930s to 1970s) are presented in the book, each printed on newsprint (as opposed to the thick glossy paper of the rest of the book) and drawn to resemble comics from the appropriate era including imitation poor colour registration and printing blemishes.* ''ComicBook/{{Alias}}'' by Brian Michael Bendis features a flashback to Jessica Jones attending the same school as Spider-Man, drawn in a style reminiscent of Steve Ditko era Spider-Man. Jessica's early superhero days as Jewel get [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks 80s-like artwork]] in addition to old school credits ("Bashful Brian Bendis", "Magnificent Mike Gaydos", "Marvelous Mark Bagley").* Also by Brian M. Bendis, the ''Golden Age'' ''Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}'' features 3 periods of time : the 40s, the 60s and modern day, each drawn in styles reminiscent of what was found in comic books of respective eras. The Retraux is especially noticeable in the colours.* As {{Deadpool}} features a lot of both meta-commentary and time travel, this tends to come up in his book. The best example is when he gets set into the past to ''Amazing Spiderman'' #47, and infiltrates himself into the story, ''ForrestGump'' style.[[note]]''Deadpool'' vol 3 #11[[/note]] All the panels and dialogue are drawn in John Romita's style, and all the characters (except Deadpool and friends) talk like Stan Lee wrote them. (Indeed, enough panels are lifted from the original work that Romita and Lee are credited as co-authors.) Seeing the modern MetaGuy Deadpool interact with the comics-code Spiderman story is a CrowningMomentOfFunny.** In case you're wondering why specifically Spider-Man, it's because Deadpool's costume bears no small resemblance to that of the ol' Webhead, meaning it was a snap to redraw Spidey as 'Pool.** ''Comicbook/{{Deadpool}}'' vol 5 #7 (from the Duggan and Posehn run) is supposedly an inventory story from 1979, crossing Deadpool (who, of course, didn't exist at the time to ''write'' inventory stories about) into the ''Comicbook/IronMan'' "Demon in a Bottle" storyline, with 70s Spidey and the Power Pack also making appearances. The art and writing style both reflect this, and it even has oversaturated [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] colouring. Later issues in that run follow on from this, having Deadpool show up in what are claimed to be inventory stories from other eras, with the writing and art in the style of those periods. Including one from Deadpool's [[TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks actual early days]], with a Creator/RobLiefeld in-joke as the characters have everything possible hiding their feet. * John Byrne's untitled story from ''BatmanBlackAndWhite: Volume Two'' is drawn in the style of a [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] Franchise/{{Batman}} comic and is written accordingly as well. Batman and Robin smile throughout the story, deliver wisecracks and best the villains via a clever scheme.** ''Batman Black & White: Volume Three'' has the story "Urban Renewal"; it features some nostalgic flashbacks by characters to the "old days", and the flashbacks are drawn in UsefulNotes/{{the Golden Age|of Comic Books}} style as opposed to the more realistic present-day scenes.** ''Batman'' #600 has three "lost inventory stories" that aren't: a Golden Age time-travel tale in the style of Finger and Sprang; a late Silver Age Batgirl and Robin story in the style of Carmine Infantino; and a groovy seventies parody that could have appeared in ''Plop!'' or ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'', which is ''actually'' by Creator/SergioAragones.* One sequence in ''Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules'' features Herc hallucinating that he's reliving previous adventures due to being poisoned. When action is presented from his view, the comic suddenly appears to shift to a seventies artstyle and coloring. They even pan from Black Widow's modern look to her look from when she was on the Defenders with Hercules to emphasize it.* Viz does this a lot, notably with the strip Jack Black, which is a parody of wartime comics and books such as The Famous Five series. The occasional one off strip drawn by the same artist will often involve surreal stories. Some 'news' articles are done in the same manner.* The ''ComicBook/TheTransformersRobotsInDisguise'' 2012 Annual issue has flashback segments of Nova Prime and his inner circle done up in the style of the old 80s Marvel Transformers comics, including pages that have been made to look yellow with age, and glorious, page-long infodumps where each character takes the time to explain who they are in great detail just as characters being introduced in the old comics had a tendency to do (to encourage their readers to [[MerchandiseDriven go buy their toys]].* ''Comicbook/WonderWoman'' Vol 2 #200 has two back up stories in the style of Golden Age and Silver Age comics. The Golden Age one in particular is a very close parody, with the Holiday Girls, the Kangas, a robot duplicate and spanking ... except that the villain is a version of the Creator/GregRucka-created Veronica Cale. * The [[http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A9jyVMUHxEU/VYcdklIV_BI/AAAAAAAABgo/F0zu3ooAmnU/s1600/18-MyLittlePony32-covRE-ConEx-cafff.jpg convention variant cover]] for ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' #32, right down to the logo.* The alternative comics series ''ComicBook/SunnyvilleStories'' was launched in 2010, but its hand drawn artwork done in nib pen more resembles 20th century NewspaperComics.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Fan Works]]* ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'':** In episode 35, a ClipShow, Yami asks Kaiba if he remembers the time the two of them first met, which is shown as 'a time when the video quality wasn't very good, and the audio was all muffled and scratchy'. Clips from the first episode are used in black and white, with a fake moustache and monicle painted onto Kaiba, and a 'silent movie' motif with old-style dialogue printed on the screen and an upbeat piano theme.--->'''Kaiba:''' Your brash nature offends me, Mr. Moto! I shall soon put an end to your impertinence!\\'''Yami:''' You have assembled several creatures! Surely this is a violation?\\'''Kaiba:''' [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney My affluence makes a nonsense of the regulations!]]** Not to mention this is LampShaded by Kaiba moments later when he says he doesn't remember growing a moustache.** In Episode 56, Noah Kaiba traps the cast in their memories of the first episode. Once the characters realize what's happening and start speaking original dialog, LittleKuriboh [[MeetYourEarlyInstallmentWeirdness keeps mimicking the awkward line delivery, lack of lip-sync and muffled audio from the early episodes]] (all of which is lampshaded).[[/folder]]

[[folder:Films -- Animation]]* ''[[Recap/FuturamaM2TheBeastWithABillionBacks Futurama: The Beast With A Billion Backs]]'': A black and white title sequence resembles older cartoons. There is a black and white ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie'' scene.* ''WesternAnimation/TheIncredibles'':** The newsreel at the beginning.** One of the DVD bonus features is an "authorized adaptation" of a Mr. Incredible adventure, in the form of a cheaply-animated and simple-minded old kiddie cartoon with considerable "aged recording" noise. (The cartoon can also be viewed with Mr. Incredible and Frozone chiming in their comments, [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K-style]].)* The clips of ''Woody's Roundup'' in ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2''.* To promote ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory3'', two commercials made to look like they were from TheEighties were commissioned, featuring the {{defictionaliz|ation}}ed Lots-o'-Huggin' Bear doll -- one [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6dZtNYGlLM English,]] one [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5ZwkcHCVkE Japanese.]]* The 1930s style song "The Spirit of Adventure" over ''WesternAnimation/{{Up}}'''s closing credits is in lo-fi monophonic sound.* The ending credits of ''Disney/TheTiggerMovie'' run against sepia still images of scenes from the film redrawn in the style of E.H. Shepherd's line drawings from the books. Tigger in particular looks ''completely'' different from the Disney version.* ''Disney/WreckItRalph'' pays homage to vintage video-game styles with its protagonist being the villain in an 8-bit style game modeled after ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong.'' The closing credits play with this further, notably when Ralph and Vanellope help demolish the car in the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' bonus level. The end also invokes this trope, after the "Wreck-it Ralph" game becomes more popular than ever with the inclusion of a "Q-Bert" bonus round.-->'''Ralph''': They say we're retro. I think that means 'old but cool'.* ''WesternAnimation/ThePeanutsMovie'' is computer animated, but its design is reminiscent of the classic ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' TV specials.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Films -- Live- Action]]* DeliberatelyMonochrome cult musical ''[[Film/ForbiddenZone Forbidden Zone]]'' looks and feels like an old film processed through a New Wave psychedelic filter. * 2011 French romantic comedy ''Film/TheArtist'' is shot in the old 4:3 AspectRatio, is DeliberatelyMonochrome, and is a [[SilenceIsGolden silent film]].* Low-budget 1989 independent film ''Film/SidewalkStories'' is quite similar to ''The Artist''--it isn't shot in the 4:3 aspect ratio, but it is a DeliberatelyMonochrome SilentMovie, and a remake of Creator/CharlieChaplin's ''[[Film/TheKid1921 The Kid]]'' to boot.* ''Film/HoboWithAShotgun'' is made to look like it was made in the early '80s, complete with Technicolor, music, and film grain.* Most films by Creator/QuentinTarantino are full of this, being {{Genre Throwback}}s. This includes ''Film/{{Grindhouse}}'', which he did with Creator/RobertRodriguez. It is a '70s BMovie pastiche which was presented in its theatrical cut as a double feature with scratched-up film, missing reels, [[RealTrailerFakeMovie trailers for fictional films]] and an ad for a Tex-Mex restaurant adjoining the theatre.* The 2005 ''Film/TheCallOfCthulhu'' movie looks like a silent movie, produced when Creator/HPLovecraft first wrote his classic tale. (Even [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHuY2wXTd0o the trailer]]!). Likewise ''Film/TheWhispererInDarkness'' was made is the style of a 1930s Franchise/UniversalHorror movie. * [[Creator/TimBurton The director]] and cinematographers of the film ''Film/EdWood'' went out of their way to exaggerate the dark, grainy, ill-lit look of low-budget 1940s-1950s films.* Nearly all of Creator/GuyMaddin's films, including ''Film/TheSaddestMusicInTheWorld'' and ''Film/BrandUponTheBrain'', are made to replicate the look of films from the 30s and the silent era, with considerable success.* Creator/WoodyAllen's ''Film/{{Zelig}}'' is a Mockumentary about a "chameleon man" of the 1920s and '30s. The supposedly archived footage of the era was actually filmed using cameras and such of the period. This, in addition to ''Film/ForrestGump'' style editing (though this movie predated that one by over ten years), created a nearly impenetrable illusion.* ''Film/FarFromHeaven'', set in TheFifties, imitates the look of movies produced back then, specifically Douglas Sirk's movies - the plot is almost lifted from ''All That Heaven Allows''. The score is by Elmer Bernstein, who composed music for several famous films in the '50s.* The French musical ''Film/EightWomen''. The look of the film evokes the look of films made in the 1950s, and the songs are all performed in a 1950s style, despite some of them being from as late as the '80s.* Creator/OrsonWelles used this trope in ''Film/CitizenKane'' with the newsreel in the beginning, going so far as to use ''sandpaper'' on the original print to make it look old and worn.* ''{{Mirage}}'' is a 1965 movie filmed in black and white and in the style of classic noir.* ''Film/GoodNightAndGoodLuck'': Filmed in black and white, with only ArchiveFootage of Joe [=McCarthy=] used to portray the senator.* This trope is a specialty of Larry Blamire:** ''Film/TheLostSkeletonOfCadavra'' is an AffectionateParody of the 1950s [[BMovie B movies]] filmed in black and white and complete with bad acting and SpecialEffectsFailure. Its sequel ''Film/TheLostSkeletonReturnsAgain'' is filmed in color and imitates the style of a studio BMovie from TheSixties.** ''Film/TrailOfTheScreamingForehead'' is an AffectionateParody of a slightly different sort of SF film - a '60s extravaganza shot in widescreen (Craniascope!) and vivid color.** ''Film/DarkAndStormyNight'' goes back to the '30s to parody the OldDarkHouse genre.* The Westlake Film Company has one silent movie [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TnGsCHqals comedy in their arsenal]]. ''To: Steve, From: The Devil'' was ''even'' shot with that kind of camera used long ago, along with the same good old improvised piano music, which makes PaintingTheMedium successful in this case.* The Turkish movie ''GORA'' has a brief flashback scene to the early 1900s, shot in the scratchy, silent, black-and-white footage of the first 'moving pictures'.* ''Film/TheMexican'' (2001) had the flashbacks filmed in a hand-cranked camera to evoke this trope.* ''Film/DownWithLove'' is an AffectionateParody of a certain subgenre of early-1960s romantic comedies, filmed with more than a few {{Retraux}} touches. It's particularly noticeable in the set design and background music.* The Creator/MelBrooks film ''Film/SilentMovie'' is filmed in color and includes a music track that's part of the film (rather than separate -- but this was common in the last years of the silent era). Nonetheless, it was done in the style of...a silent movie, with actors "speaking" their lines, followed by a dialogue card: something that's partially parodied throughout the movie.* The Creator/MelBrooks remake of ''Film/ToBeOrNotToBe'' features a montage of WorldWarII footage of Poland being attacked, in the style of the newsreels of the time. The montage ends with main characters appearing in the same gritty black and white style.* For ''Ride/BackToTheFutureTheRide'', the short "Doc on the March" was done in the style of an old newsreel, with Doc inserted into various footage ''Film/ForrestGump'' style. See him get an autograph from Thomas Edison! Watch him get a photo of Music/TheBeatles! Witness him resisting the urge to bump off Richard Nixon!* The Bayeux Tapestry-esque opening of ''Film/BedknobsAndBroomsticks'', complete with the film's Nazi invasion depicted in Medieval tapestry style* ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'' used old footage from an actual Hong Kong martial arts flick that was worn, so most of the new parts edited into the movie were artificially worn to match the rest of the film.* Anything directed by Wes Anderson (''Film/{{Rushmore}}'', ''Film/TheRoyalTenenbaums'', ''Film/TheLifeAquaticWithSteveZissou'', [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=spCknVcaSHg his American Express commercial]]) is full of it. Actually, Wes Anderson himself is pretty Retraux. ([[OutdatedOutfit Have you seen how he dresses?]])* The "Maroon Cartoon" opening of ''Film/WhoFramedRogerRabbit'' is made to look like an animated theatrical short from the 1940s, when the movie is set.* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' was deliberately filmed using old camera lenses to give it a more old-time Western feel.* Several parts in ''Film/CSATheConfederateStatesOfAmerica'' are made to look like older films, including an old, silent movie.* The Mel Gibson crime movie ''Film/{{Payback}}'' is very stylized film-noir; colors are washed out, characters wear vintage clothing, even the cellular car phones are rotary dial.** The film uses SchizoTech to enhance it's atmosphere; the 1930s Art Deco Outfit building along with the aforementioned telephones clash with cars which are mostly from the 70s. The blue-grey color filter was removed in the Director's Cut.* ''Film/TheHouseOfTheDevil'' is an homage to 1970s horror films, from the setting to the credits to the music. It's even being released on VHS.* ''Film/IronMan2'' features the song "Make Way For Tomorrow Today" over the end credits, performed by the Stark Expo Singers. The theme song for Stark Expo '74, it sounds a lot like various songs from Disney movies and theme parks, most notably "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow," the theme to the ''Carousel of Progress'' attraction. This is no accident. The Stark Expo theme was written by Richard Sherman, who wrote that and many other memorable songs as a Disney employee. An expanded version of the song also appears in ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' (composed by Creator/AlanSilvestri instead of John Debney).* ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'' a movie set mostly in the 1960s has a Creator/SaulBass style animated opening credit sequence.* The ''Film/MoulinRouge'' commentary track mentions how much trouble they went through to put imperfections in the film in order to evoke this.* The 1977 war film ''Film/TheAscent'' is made up to look like a film from the 1940s, with its World War II setting, uses of Academy ratio (an aspect ratio long disused by then) and black and white cinematography.* 2014 Polish film ''Film/{{Ida}}'' is shot DeliberatelyMonochrome and in the 4:3 AspectRatio. The director has said that this was a deliberate effort to evoke the Polish films of his youth in TheSixties.* ''Film/{{Apollo 18}}'', in keeping with its ''Blair Witch''-esque premise, is entirely portrayed as found footage from a 1970s space mission, with all the accompanying film grain and video artifacts.* ''Film/BlackDynamite'' is a movie from the late 2000s that's made to look like the cheaply made blaxplotation films of the 70s, with grainy quality, obviously bad effects, and [[StylisticSuck choppy editing]].* The BloodyHilarious short film ''Film/ForkliftDriverKlaus'' was shot in 2000 but not only did it use costumes and props from the 1980s, it was also shot on VHS and looks like it had been copied several times before being digitized.* In ''Film/TheGreatRace'', the credits are rendered in the period-appropriate style of a Magic Lantern show.-->"Ladies, kindly remove your hats."* In ''Film/{{Godzilla 2014}}'', scenes taking place in TheFifties are edited to look as if they were shot on film stock of the era. The cinematographer even used a camera lens not used since TheSixties.* In keeping with Peter Jackson's striving for an accurate portrayal of early 1950s Christchurch, New Zealand in ''Film/HeavenlyCreatures'', the title cards are done in an early '50s style, with the actors' first names in ''Italics'' and last names in CAPITALS. The font is period as well.* ''Film/XMen'':** Everything in ''Film/XMenFirstClass'', has very '60s/'70s sensibilities, from Emma Frost's BondGirl costumes to the BBC science documentary-like credits sequence.** In ''Film/XMenDaysOfFuturePast'', the 1973 Sentinels are clearly based on their Silver Age comic inspirations. In sharp contrast, however, the 2023 Sentinels look more alien than robot.* ''[[Film/WNUFHalloweenSpecial The WNUF Halloween Special]]'' is a FoundFootage horror film painstakingly made to resemble an actual 1987 small town TV station news broadcast, including cheesy fake low budget commercials. To make it look authentic, the director even went as far as shooting the film digitally, transferring it into VHS and copying it to other tapes ''five times'', in order to achieve the proper degradation that a 1987 recording would suffer.* Creator/KarelZeman uses 19th-century artistic mediums and styles to eye-popping effect in his films.** In particular, one reviewer noted that Zeman's ''The Deadly Invention'' isn't just ''set'' in a charmingly SteamPunk 19th-century world; it looks and sounds as if it had actually been made ''within'' that world. Along the same lines, another reviewer said something to the effect that, while it's normally easy to guess what decade a film was made in, it's well nigh impossible to say even which ''century'' this one is from.* ''Film/HouseOfTheWolfMan'' emulates the style of Franchise/UniversalHorror MonsterMash films from the forties.* The 2003 remake of ''Theatre/TheMusicMan'' uses acting and dialogue styles from the mid-20th century, as well as a slight sepia tint, soft focus on certain shots, and somewhat degraded audio. One scene in a bar even has [[FrothyMugsOfWater people drinking just water and milk]]. The only signs that it was made in the 21st-century are the higher visual quality, the extensive racial integration of the town (and of some romances in the background), and one scene in which the mayor writes with [[TheSouthpaw his left hand]], which would've been incredibly unlikely when the movie is set.* 1989 short film ''Film/TheLunchDate'' is shot in black-and-white, with a rather old-timey classical music score and an old-style font for the opening title card.* ''TurboKid'' is a very deliberate (and [[BloodyHilarious splat-stick]] laden) 1980s-style homage to MadMax and BMXBandits, as well as early DirectToVideo imitations of them. There's even a scene where VHS tapes are used as firewood.* Interesting quasi-example in ''Film/TheLimey'': Terence Stamp plays an aging gangster, and the film occasionally shows flashback clips of him as a young man in the 1960s. These sequences have the look and quality of a film from that era—because they ''are'' from that era. Specifically, they're clips from the 1967 film ''Poor Cow'', one of Stamp's early films. It's a recycling of an existing film, rather than filming a sequence specifically for the film that attempts to replicate the era, in order to produce a retraux feel.* The model shots in the 2014 film ''SpaceStation76'' look ''exactly'' like 1970s model shots. You can even see the strings! Likewise, the sets are designed with all the limitations seen in actual science fiction of the period.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Literature]]* ''Literature/JonathanStrangeAndMrNorrell'' is a fantasy tale written as a Jane Austen pastiche, right down to using obsolete spellings of common words.* Creator/ThomasPynchon's novels ''Mason & Dixon'' and ''Against the Day'' are both written in prose styles similar to literature from the eras in which they're set.* Creator/StephenBaxter's ''The Time Ships'' is a sequel to ''Literature/TheTimeMachine'' by Creator/HGWells, and written in a similar late-19th century style.* ''Literature/TheBaroqueCycle'' consistently uses antiquated spellings of words, most often by hyphenating compound words that had yet to become fused together by common usage. * ''Literature/TheScarletLetter'' was written in the 19th century, but it's often taught in high schools as an example of 17th-century writing.* It's not in the actual text, but some printings of Literature/TheBible contain supplementary material that looks like a seventeenth- or eighteenth-century pamphlet. For instance, "deluxe" versions of the New American translation contain, in the preface, a "[[LongTitle Synchronous History of the Nations, Showing Their Origin, Chief Events, Changes or Extinction, from the Earliest Period Through New Testament Period.]]" This version was printed in 1970.* ''Website/TheOnion Presents: Our Dumb Century'' "reprinted" the front pages of dozens of issues of ''The Onion'', going back to the early 1900s. (In reality, ''TheOnion'' was founded in 1988.)* ''Literature/{{S}}.'' was deliberately planned to look and feel like a book written and printed in the 1950's. The cover has woodblock print letters and graphic, there's a library sticker on the spine as well as a library "borrowed/returned" stamp in the back (with numerous dates of having been "borrowed"), and all the pages have yellowing and foxing to them. The story itself is written in a faux-translated from German mystery, with decidedly dated word usage and structure. * ''The Collector'' series of UrbanFantasy novels by Chris F. Holm, have [[http://angryrobotbooks.com/books/dead-harvest-by-chris-f-holm/ covers]] remeniscent of [[http://kellyriggsmysteries.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/agatha_cover-27-hickory.jpg 1960s Fontana paperback trade-dress,]] including fake scratches, stains and spine creasing for the "found in a charity shop" effect. [[/folder]]

[[folder:Live-Action TV]]* ''Series/ColdCase'' flashbacks are filmed to evoke the period they are from (e.g. black and white for times that predate colour film).** In addition, the flashback sequences often feature popular music that likely ''would'' have been featured in a TV show episode from whatever year the flashback would have taken place in.** Occasionally, ''Cold Case'' will feature original music with the style of the episode's time period. For instance, the song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ia_FstTyE4 "Scarlet Rose"]] from Season 4's "Static" sounds ''exactly'' like a ballad from the late 1950's.* ''Series/GarthMarenghisDarkplace'' genuinely looks like some low-budget sci-fi/horror show from the 1980s, despite having actually been made in 2004. One episode includes the original song "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8BwQBjJvN5Y One Track Lover]]," which is the style of a cheesy pop song from TheEighties.* Same for ''Series/LookAroundYou'', which mimics 1980s educational TV despite being made in 2002 (for the first series) and 2005 (for the second).* And in turn, ''The Peter Serafinowicz Show'', from the creator of ''Look Around You'', has featured faux 1970s [[PublicServiceAnnouncement public information films]] (complete of course with authentic faded colour, grain and scratches).* One episode of ''Series/AshesToAshes'' does this for the ShowWithinAShow, being shot on 1980s style video with very limited lighting and makeup, scratchy sound and cheesy backing music. ([[http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=K7BNZjUhmXk link]] - could arguably be a minor spoiler).* Speaking of which, its parent show ''Series/{{Life on Mars|2006}}'' revelled in this trope for advertising, even going as far as having a recreation of the BBC 1 Colour ident of the 70s precede broadcasting of the second series. [[Series/LifeOnMars2008 The American version]] did the same with the ABC logo.* The TV version of ''Series/InTheHeatOfTheNight'' used a brilliant pastiche of a 1960s title sequence.* Harry Enfield did this a lot in his sketch shows, especially with the Cholmondley-Warner & Grayson sketches on ''Series/HarryEnfieldAndChums''. His later series ''Series/HarryAndPaul'' featured Retraux versions of modern films, such as a 1930s melodramatic version of ''The Bourne Identity'' and a silent version of ''Brokeback Mountain'' starring Laurel and Hardy.* ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' has a FilmNoir episode framed as Jimmy Olsen's dream sequence.** So did ''Series/LoisAndClark''.** And ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' (season 4's "Monster Movie").** And ''Series/PrettyLittleLiars'' (Season 4, "Sahdow Play"). * ''Franchise/StarTrek'' loves to use the holodeck for this kind of thing. [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Jean-Luc Picard's]] noir adventures as detective Dixon Hill were a fan favourite (and won the show an Emmy for costume design), as were [[Series/StarTrekVoyager Tom Paris's]] ''ComicStrip/BuckRogers''-style Captain Proton stories, which were actually filmed in black and white; and ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'''s forays into fictional nightclub crooner Vic Fontaine's club.** Special mention must be given to the ''[[Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine Deep Space Nine]]'' episode "Trials and Tribble-ations", which features time travel back to the era of ''TOS''. In addition to inserting ''Deep Space Nine'' actors into existing footage, new scenes aboard the old ''Enterprise'' and the space station were filmed using 1960s-style lighting - they even used 1960s ''film stock'' because the colour saturation properties were different.* ''Jimmy [=McDonald's=] Canada'' was a parody of current events shows from TheSixties, filmed in black and white, and occasionally stopping to advertise cigarettes. Richard Waugh, who played Jimmy, somehow managed to convey "TheSixties" in his very speaking voice.* ''Series/MadMen'' on AMC is supposed to be set in the early 60s, and is filmed with a dark, slightly fuzzy/grainy look to it. This is in keeping with the show's obsessive focus on setting -- the furniture is all vintage, along with the clothing. Even to the point of making the actors wear authentic undergarments that are never seen.* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' was deliberately filmed with old camera lenses to give it that authentic [[TheSeventies 70s]] {{Western}} feel.* The DVD menus of ''Series/TheITCrowd''. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yoOkoP5GGQI The first series]] is a pastiche of vintage computers, complete with tape loader and extremely elaborate (for a DVD '''menu''') parodies of ''VideoGame/HeadOverHeels'' and ''VideoGame/JetSetWilly''. And [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAY52wyb6tM the second series]] does to 16-bit games what the first did to 8-bit.* ''Series/YoGabbaGabba'' has an 8-bit sounding opening, prominently features chiptunes during scene changes, and occasionally features episode filler scenes that pays homage to 80s video games, complete with blocky graphics.* ''Series/{{Fringe}}'', for an episode set entirely in TheEighties, used [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=reaIcN61M-M&fmt=22 an 80s-style opening]] SpecialEditionTitle. Hilariously, they replace the normal flashes of futuristic fringe sciences (teleportation, dark matter, etc) with things that were futuristic at the time (cold fusion, in vitro fertilization, ''personal computing'') but [[ScienceMarchesOn have either become commonplace or totally debunked]]. Compare to [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-daL35AIQpw the usual opening]]* ''Series/{{Chuck}}'': "Chuck vs. the Role Models" has a ColdOpen of a '70s/'80s style SpecialEditionTitle (mostly a parody of ''Series/HartToHart''[='s=] credit sequence.)* ''Series/TheLarrySandersShow'' does this a little:** We occasionally see clips of Larry's shows from the five years prior to the start of the series. Not a terribly long time compared to most examples of this trope, but the producers take care to make these clips look different from Larry's "current" shows.** Larry's talk show is, itself, rather Retraux. Like [[TheTonightShow Johnny Carson]], Larry does a lot of big, broad sketches where Larry and Hank wear elaborate and silly costumes. This style of comedy sketch became more or less extinct in late night after Carson's retirement, however. Characters occasionally remark InUniverse that none of the other talk shows do this sort of thing anymore.* ''Late Night with Creator/JimmyFallon'''s annual Video Game Week features opening credits with visuals and music straight out of 8-bit Nintendo games of TheEighties, including direct visual references to ''Mega Man 2'' and ''Ninja Gaiden''.** Speaking of The Eighties, Jimmy sometimes does a sketch called "Video Vision", which parodies [[InstructionalFilm instructional videos]] from that decade. The videos are [[StylisticSuck intentionally made to have faulty aspects]] that were common at the time, such as low video quality, abrupt scene transitions, and poorly done edits.* ''TopGear'' did a 1970s style intro for a fake detective series, ''The Interceptors'', complete with era-appropriate [[PornStache Porn Staches]].** They also applied a very convincing early-1980s videotape look to parts of the "Which Eastern Bloc car was worst" sequence.* ''Series/{{Danger 5}}'' deliberately looks like a low-budget 60s action flick. An action comedy about a team, Danger 5, fighting StupidJetpackHitler in a 60s AlternateHistory, it also includes {{Retraux}} {{Toku}} action, in which Hitler gains command of mechanically enhanced Japanese supersoldiers. Season 2 upgrades to TheEighties, with associated look.* ''Series/{{Glee}}'s'' ShowWithinAShow during the third season's ChristmasEpisode was deliberately filmed in black and white, and invoked the feel of holiday variety shows from the 50s to the 70s, albeit with a little tongue-in-cheek humor about the whole thing.* A ''Series/SpittingImage'' sketch claimed to be celebrating the show's 100th anniversary, and showed a clip from the supposed first show in the 1880s. This was a black and white scene of two Theatre/PunchAndJudy style puppets, and silent movie captions reading "I say, [[UsefulNotes/WilliamGladstone Mr Gladstone]]! You're not very good!"* ''Series/{{Hustle}}''. An exposition scene explaining how an old-style con worked was done in the form of a black & white silent movie.* A flashback montage in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode [[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E11TheCrimsonHorror "The Crimson Horror"]] was styled to look like a Victorian-era kinetoscope.** In both [[Recap/DoctorWhoS22E4TheTwoDoctors ''The Two Doctors'']] and the show's 50th anniversary special, [[Recap/DoctorWho50thASTheDayOfTheDoctor ''The Day of the Doctor'']], the first few seconds were in black and white, with the latter also featuring the original title sequence from the mid '60s.** In [[Recap/DoctorWho2007CiNSTimeCrash "Time Crash"]] starring the Fifth and Tenth Doctors, the background music used in the Fifth Doctor's era is heavily featured throughout.** The "Day of the Daleks: Special Edition" DVD release has a brand-new version of the "[[SpecialEffectsFailure only three Daleks]]" onslaught, new voices by Dalek aficionado Nicholas Briggs, and new CGI sequences. An ''unbelievable'' amount of care was taken to ensure that nothing would look out of place within the 1973 milieu: the Dalek voices were re-created with older, analog equipment (also, Briggs uses a slightly less-deranged voice set than he does on the New Series); the new film sequences were done with a period BBC film camera; and the CGI was made to look a little more like a model set. * An episode of ''Series/TheTwilightZone'', "Once Upon a Time", guest-starred Creator/BusterKeaton as a man who travels forward in time from 1890 to 1960. The parts set in 1890 are filmed in the style of an old SilentMovie.* The opening of ''Series/SiliconValley'' looks like a 16-bit ''VideoGame/SimCity''-esque map of Silicon Valley. * ''Series/HeilHoneyImHome'' is presented in 1950s sitcom style, despite being filmed in 1990.* ''Series/StrangerThings'' enjoys this trope, befitting its [[TheEighties Eighties]] setting. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPDZkbq0Zp8 The opening titles]] have burn-in, film specks, and slight flickering, making them look like the opening titles to a show from the Eighties. In addition, the show's electronic background music deliberately sounds like something that Creator/JohnCarpenter might have done back then.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pinballs]]* [=WhizBang=] Pinball's ''[[Pinball/WhoaNellieBigJuicyMelons Whoa Nellie! Big Juicy Melons]]'' was made by cannibalizing parts from a 1957 electro-mechanical pinball, then using the components in an all-new playfield design with original art and modern imaging techniques. The result is a boutique pinball table that plays like it stepped out of TheFifties but with a modern look.* Creator/{{Capcom}}'s ''Pinball/{{Breakshot}}'' is a ShoutOut to '70s electro-mechanical pinball machines, with a single-level playfield and simpler rules. The score is even shown as a digital copy of old-fashioned scoring reels, and the game includes digitized musical chimes.* The EdutainmentGame ''Pinball/TheBrain'' was made by modifying ''Pinball/TheSimpsonsPinballParty''; it uses digitized electro-mechanical pinball chimes to replace the original game's sound effects.* The "Snooker Champ" table of ''VideoGame/{{Silverball}}'' simulates an electro-mechanical pinball table.* ''VideoGame/LoonyLabyrinth'' switches its modern sound effects and music for simpler sounds and chimes when the player activates the TimeTravel WizardMode.* The upcoming ''[[http://www.thebiglebowskipinball.com/ The Big Lebowski]]'' pinball has an LCD screen, but simulates a DMD like most pinball machines since TheNineties have used.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Print Media]]* ''Time'' magazine published a special Bicentennial "July 8, 1776" edition in 1976. The entire issue is written as if ''Time'' had actually existed in 1776, with all its usual sections (with a few obvious exceptions like Film and Television.) It apparently sold well, and was followed by a "1789" edition covering the first inauguration of George Washington.* More recently, ''Time'' has tried to revive its pre-1990s letterhead (the word "TIME" in bright red letters in a smaller font and dead in the center of the top third of the magazine). Really, the only difference now is that the letters aren't outlined in white or yellow.* ''Magazine/DoctorWhoMagazine'''s 50th aniversary issue included an insert which imagined what DWM would have looked like in 1964, celebrating a whole year of ''Series/DoctorWho'' (DWM actually started in 1979). Highlights included "Galactic Guardian" (because it couldn't have been called Gallifrey Guardian before 1973) and a review of the first {{Novelization}}, ''Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks'', which was incandescent about the fact TheyChangedItNowItSucks -- while being somewhat vague as to what had actually happened in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS1E2TheDaleks the TV story]], because it was a year ago and there wasn't any way of seeing it again.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]* The short-lived Wrestling Society X was home to Matt Classic, a wrestler who had been in a coma since the '50s, and wrestled in the same style that won him the World Heavyweight Championship in 1952 -- including such devastating moves as the head vice, the abdominal stretch, and the airplane spin. Matt Classic was portrayed by Colt Cabana, who was in his mid-20s at the time.* Wrestling/{{WWE}} decided to do an "old school" night on ''Raw'' in November of 2010. They threw up a classic looking WWF set and ramp, swapped out the barriers with old-fashioned rails, and even used a retro-styled WWE logo (though this has actually appeared on a few John Cena promotional items in the past). They even had MichaelCole dress up as an old-school VinceMcMahon, since Vince was on commentary duty during the era the show was representing.* They did this again in 2013, with Michael Cole having to wear that horrible mustard-coloured jacket, although the WWF logo was notably absent, in favour of the block W.* The 2008 ''Royal Rumble'' was, to a lesser extent, also done in a retro style. Not only did it take place in Madison Square Garden (where professional wrestling in the U.S. actually began), but it was introduced by classic announcer Michael Buffer, was shot on slightly fast-stock photography, and used close-ups and multiple cameras sparingly - all to capture a pre-Hogan '80s look.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Sports]]* An alternate term for Retreaux in sports uniforms is "fauxback", in reference to throwback uniforms; if a design is meant to emulate a specific historical uniform, it's a "throwback", but if it's a new design meant to look old (particularly if the team itself isn't that old to begin with), it's a "fauxback".* The granddaddy of the fauxback is the set of uniforms worn by the Chicago White Sox from 1976 through 1981. Eccentric owner Bill Veeck wanted a retro look for his team, so he clad them in collared pullovers inspired by their earliest days (except the collars stopped at the shoulder seams). The cap, bearing the team's then-brand-new "SOX" wordmark, didn't quite fit the retro look, though.* Also in 1976, several MLB teams adopted the old-style "pillbox" caps to celebrate the centennial of the National League. Most teams reverted to the modern style after a single season, but the Pittsburgh Pirates kept the pillbox caps for ten years.* The National Hockey League created Retraux alternate jerseys, especially among teams too new to have large amounts of history to tap into. Many of the teams that have participated in the annual Winter Classic outdoor game have used one-off fauxbacks, which occasionally get promoted to a full-time alternate jersey.** A trend in the NHL (and throughout North American hockey) is to include a cream (off-white) color usually called either "vintage white" or "antique white" to approximate the natural discoloring of an eighty-year-old wool sweater. The first instance in the NHL was with the Minnesota Wild's introduction of their third jersey, and the All-Star Game jerseys from that year (which they hosted), all in a fauxback style, though the off-white was part of Minnesota's official color scheme (called "Minnesota wheat" by the team). The NHL has since only used "antique white" on designs not of genuine NHL vintage, instead using them for mash-ups, original designs, and uniforms throwing back to, or inspired by, non-NHL teams (such as the Calgary Flames' Heritage Classic homage to the Calgary Tigers, or the Vancouver Canucks' Millionaires uniforms).* The [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball Australian Football League's]] "heritage round" has teams wear old-style versions of their guernseys. Hawthorn fans seemed to particularly like their heritage strip, and there is a push for the team to change back to it permanently. Turned well and truly UpToEleven in 1996 where the AFL turned the clock back a hundred years to when it began, bringing out vintage cars, styles of dress and radio to celebrate.* The throwback jerseys worn by the NBA's Golden State Warriors and Philadelphia 76ers were such a hit with fans that the two teams changed their logos permanently.** The Washington Wizards eventually changed to the classic red, white and blue striped uniforms and colors of the Washington Bullets... albeit while keeping the Wizards name and logo (in red, white and blue as well).* The Tampa Bay Rays, who entered MLB as the Devil Rays in 1998, introduced uniforms in 2012 that are meant to show how the team might have looked if they existed in 1978. They cribbed heavily from the San Diego Padres of that era with contrasting raglan sleeves, front cap panel, and even the way the team name is styled on the front of the jersey.* NFL teams are allowed to wear throwbacks twice a year. Of note were the Green Bay Packers 1929 throwbacks with brown helmets to stand in for leather.* Many American historical reenactors organize [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vintage_base_ball vintage base ball]] teams and play matches against each other. All of the equipment and uniforms are reproductions, and actual 19th century rules are used.* UsefulNotes/{{Indycar}} and UsefulNotes/{{NASCAR}} cars are sometimes painted in retro paint schemes for one-off races. Sometimes for nostalgia's sake, or to celebrate a milestone, but usually [[MoneyDearBoy to sell more diecast models]]. Usually this involves putting an older corporate logo on the car too. Seems to be particularly prevalent among drink manufacturers; Budweiser, Coke, Pepsi, Miller, Coors etc have all done it.* Each team in the [[UsefulNotes/AustralianRulesFootball Australian Football League]] has its own team song, usually drawing the music from a range of old sources (ranging from music hall, marches, a couple of [[WeirdAlEffect otherwise unknown works]], and even La Marseilles) and writing new lyrics about the team, but the newest teams have had songs written for them, some of which have aged terribly (the West Coast Eagles' song just sounds like [[TheEighties an Eighties power ballad]]). The exception is the Greater Western Sydney Giants, who have [[http://www.gwsgiants.com.au/fanzone/club-song got a club song]] written by [[Music/TheCatEmpire Harry Angus]], which is decidedly oompah to hit the century-old feel of every other team song.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Tabletop Games]]* ''TabletopGame/MazesAndMinotaurs'' is a WhatIf on ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' if Gygax and Arneson used Greek mythology instead of medieval fantasy and it's also a playable game.* "Labyrinth Lord" is a Retraux as well -- this time much closer to the original version of ''Dungeons & Dragons''** As well as "Swords and Wizardry," which draws on [[HeroicFantasy Sword and Sorcery]] as opposed to Labyrinth Lord's HighFantasy and which also takes out the Thief, leaving us with the Fighting Man, the Magic User and the Cleric of original D&D.** There are a fair number of other retroclones out there, including OSRIC and Basic Fantasy for 1e. In addition, the makers of "Labyrinth Lord" also made "Mutant Future," which is a close-as-you-can-get-it remake of ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld'' using the Labyrinth Lord rules.* Also, ''[[http://www222.pair.com/sjohn/encounter-critical.htm Encounter Critical,]]'' deliberately designed to look like a mid-70s D&D-knockoff made by a pair of sci-fi fans.* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'''s ''Coldsnap'' set was designed in the style of the ''Ice Age'' and ''Alliances'' sets from a decade earlier, most blatantly the use of "slowtrips," the clunky, slow version of cantrips that hadn't been used since less than a year after ''Alliances''.** And cumulative upkeep. Don't forget that.** The joke set ''Unhinged'', the nostalgia set ''Time Spiral'', and the online-only reprint sets all bring back retired frame designs to evoke this trope.* ''TabletopGame/CartoonActionHour'' kisses up to the action cartoons of the 1980s.* Goodman Games used the slogan "Third Edition Rules, First Edition Feel" for their ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' 3E products. They intentionally copied the style of [=D&D=] 1E to appeal to fans of that game who never converted to 2E or 3E.** Necromancer Games has a similar design philosophy. Their best-known {{Sourcebook}}, ''Tome of Horrors'', consists largely of 1E monsters that WizardsOfTheCoast wasn't using and let them publish. Complete with high-contrast pen-and-ink black and white illustrations.** Robert Kuntz also used the same trade dress for his retro modules as well -- of course, [[JustifiedTrope he was one of the old hands at TSR at the time this style was originally being used for Dungeons and Dragons]].*** In fact, use of the old [=D&D=] style seems to be taking off for publishers who want to give their modules an old-school feel.*** Either that, or it's [[UpToEleven an extreme case]] of FollowTheLeader.* There's ''[[http://www.forgottenfutures.com/ Forgotten Futures]]'', shareware "Scientific Romance Role Playing Game" by Marcus L. Rowland -- as the name says, it's designed for this sort of adventures.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Theater]]* Christopher Fry's 1948 play ''Theatre/TheLadysNotForBurning'' is written in the style of a Shakespearean comedy.* The Broadway version of LittleShopOfHorrors was composed in 1982 with a deliberately 1960s feel, in a nod to the original Roger Corman film. Same goes for the 1986 film remake.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Animation]]* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'':** The "Old Timey" cartoons.** Any of the Videlectrix games on ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' (with the exception of ''VideoGame/StrongBadsCoolGameForAttractivePeople''): ''VideoGame/PeasantsQuest'' is at least as good, if not actually better, as many of its "contemporaries" which it mimics, such as ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry''. To add to the retrauxness, the employees of Videlectrix are the Brothers Chaps dressed up in polo shirts and fake mustaches. And their games are programmed on an Apple [=IIe=].** Furthermore, they occasionally make toons in their own older style, like [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/stuckincraw.html "The Homestar Runner Gets Something Stuck In His Craw."]]** Let's not forget [[http://www.homestarrunner.com/cz110.html "Coach Z's 110%,"]] which is made in the style of an old {{infomercial}}.* The entire oeuvre of Paul Robertson, creator of [[http://vimeo.com/5824679 Pirate Baby's Cabana Battle Street Fight 2006]] and [[http://vimeo.com/2776328 Kings of Power 4 Billion %]]-- the most awesome old-school video games that never actually existed.* The entire third episode of ''WebAnimation/SenpaiClub'' is this. It's supposed to be from the 1986 adaptation of ''Senpai Club'' and thus is done in an '80s style.* Creator/FedorComix has an [[OrphanedSeries abandoned series]] animated in 8-bit style in its entirety.** He also did an 8-bit themed issue of his show Fedor Comix Draws. It can be seen [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jTyQjezeC0 right here.]]** Then there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj-mTG3ckhk this]] video stylized as a VHS recording of a Soviet propaganda video, complete with Kraftwerk-esque tune (it should be noted that Enjoykin (or Enjoyker), the composer, is a fan of this trope as well). * Super Turbo Atomic Ninja Rabbit is a tribute to animated kids' shows of the [[TheEighties 80's]] and [[TheNineties 90's]]; the creators couldn't leave it at being a pastiche of WesternAnimation/ThunderCats, WesternAnimation/SilverHawks and [[WesternAnimation/TheComicStrip Tiger Sharks]] or [[TeenageMutantSamuraiWombats Teenage Mutant Samurai Wombat]] type shows like Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, WesternAnimation/StreetSharks and WesternAnimation/ExtremeDinosaurs among others. They take it all the way, and leave out no detail. [[ShownTheirWork They painstakingly recreated the distinctive features of the hand painted cel era]]; including scratches, dust particles, lineart on the characters, slight dropshadow underneath the characters and foreground, [[ConspicuouslyLightPatch Conspicuously Light Patches]] and jittering frame.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Comics]]* ''Webcomic/{{Narbonic}}'' did one of these, [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/narbonic/series.php?view=archive&chapter=9791&mpe=1&step=1 The Astonishing Excursions of Helen Narbon & Co.]], interspersed with the main comic.** ''Narbonic'' also had the ''Dave in Slumberland'' strips once a year, which were drawn in the style of ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'', and provided immense foreshadowing.* [[http://www.topatoco.com/graphics/00000001/rb-vol1.jpg Issue 1]] of ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' appears as if it had been printed during UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks.** Flashbacks in ''Dr. [=McNinja=]'' use the shading style of the time when they take place (e.g. when the story was told about how Gordito got his guns, the comic dropped shading.)* ''Webcomic/{{Wondermark}}'' is made to look like it was made in the early 1900s, and was: the author takes old-style printings and adds dialog.** ''Webcomic/MarriedToTheSea'', from the people who do ''Webcomic/ToothpasteForDinner'' and ''Webcomic/NatalieDee'', follows the same formula as Wondermark, except in single-panel format.* ''The WebComic/LaughOutLoudCats'' is a webcomic based on WebOriginal/LOLCats made to look like it's from the early 20th century.* The back cover of the first ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' prequel book describes the deliberate choice of greyscale as "Past-O-Vision". The use of crayons to illustrate the "dawn of time" backstories also invokes this trope.* In commemoration to Geocities shutting down... Behold! ''Webcomic/{{xkcd}}'' redesigned as a classic [[TheNineties 90s]] [[https://nullroute.eu.org/mirrors/xkcd-geocities/xkcd.com/ Geocities site]]! Complete with broken html, pointless marquees, and flashing background graphics.* The ''WebComic/JetDream'' comics (and sister titles ''It's Cookie!'' and ''My Jet Dream Romance'') are presented as if they were actual comic books published in the late '60s and early '70s by an obscure publisher obsessed with [[GenderBender male-to-female sex changes]].** Evidence in ''Jet Dream'' letter columns and other material suggests that the publisher believed in mass-scale [[WholesomeCrossdresser wholesome crossdressing]] by boys to prepare for humanity's future as a OneGenderRace. The wholesome, hoped-to-be [[UsefulNotes/TheComicsCode Code approved]] Jet Dream comics were only one of his business ventures aimed at cashing in on a "Fem Is In!" movement that... never quite developed.* ''Webcomic/UnicornJelly'' looks like something drawn in a 16-bit MS-DOS paint program, and with good reason: it ''was'' drawn in a 16-bit MS-DOS paint program.* ''Webcomic/IWasKidnappedByLesbianPiratesFromOuterSpace'' has been run through Photoshop filters because the auther/artist wants it to feel like "your parents’ old collection that they forget they left up there, all faded and stained."* According to WordOfGod, ''Webcomic/{{minus}}'' is done in the style of a NewspaperComic from the early 20th century. It shows.* ''TheBlondeMarvel 11''-page story "The Thing That Came" was presented as if it had been published in 1955.** The artist did it again in early 2012, with a "Municipal City" series, centered on Commander Marvel, that is supposedly fragments of a long-lost 1950s newspaper comic.* ''Videogame/TheDeadlyTowerOfMonsters'' takes the form of a B-Movie from the 1970's, with all the tropes that entails.* The Website/PlatypusComix story [[http://www.platypuscomix.net/miscellaneous/index.php?issue=16&pageType=index&seriesID=7 "Vess [=MacMeal=] Starring in: The More You Know!"]] has drawings resembling [[TheFifties 1950s]] kitschy artwork.* ''Webcomic/MSPaintAdventures'' is done in the style of a text-based adventure.* ''Webcomic/ZombieAndMummy'' is designed as a homage to late-nineties {{Geocities}}-style web design, with animated gifs and MIDI music abounding. The author, Olia Lialina, has a soft spot for old Internet culture in general, and has written [[http://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/ articles]] about it, in addition to a [[http://contemporary-home-computing.org/1tb/ blog about Geocities.]]* ''Webcomic/RipHaywire'' is a parody of old school adventure newspaper comics, so it was drawn in a style typical of the 1940s-1960s.* ''Webcomic/CorgiQuest'' uses a simplistic pixelated art style reminiscent of retro video games.* In ''Webcomic/BloodyUrban'', Murray's [[http://bloodyurban.smackjeeves.com/comics/1367680/super-ecstatic/ prescription drug-fueled hallucination]] features inanimate objects with 30's-style cartoon faces.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Web Original]]* The work of Irish animator [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-rSVF7vetL0mVpE5FEboUg/videos George White]] heavily leans to this, influences as far as Creator/JackKirby, 2000AD, Film/HammerHorror, the VHS age, Spectrum videogames, early LucasArts, BBC science fiction, pulp novels and general LimitedAnimation. * [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEAkChFGhVI This parody infomercial about "mastering the Internet."]] Yes, it's a modern-day spoof. It sure doesn't look that way, though. According to [[http://atencio.tumblr.com/post/36634716/okay the director.]] it was dubbed between video recorders four times for that extra-special effect.** Similarly, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_cei19G3L4 It's The World Wide Web]] from NeilCicierega.* ''WebVideo/ItalianSpiderman'' is shot on 16 millimeter film and lazily dubbed in Italian to accurately replicate the kind of foreign [[BMovie B-movies]] of TheSixties that it parodies.* ''WebVideo/TheNewAdventuresOfCaptainS'', a series made by [[http://www.pbc-productions.com/ PBC Productions]] about a gamer who can physically enter Sega games, is supposed to look like it was made in the early 1990s. It takes inspiration from ''WesternAnimation/CaptainNTheGameMaster'', ''Series/SuperhumanSamuraiSyberSquad'' and ''Series/SavedByTheBell''. The credits use the same font that was used in ''Series/FullHouse'' and the [[http://www.pbc-productions.com/images/dvd.jpg DVD cover]] is made to resemble the DVD cover of [[http://www.movieprop.com/tvandmovie/reviews/breakfastclub.jpg Breakfast Club.]]* WebVideo/TheTotallyRadShow: [[http://revision3.com/trs/5_12_86 5/12/86 Where the whole show is done in the style of a 1980s public access show.]]* [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/504353 This]] {{Transformers}} AffectionateParody gives an account of Transformers appearing in TheGayNineties.* "[[http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/videolinks/thatguywiththeglasses/ask-thatguy/20495-ask-that-guy-violates-ma-ti Ask That Guy VIOLATES Ma-Ti]] is done in the style of a silent film, complete with the text screens after the dialogue and black-and-white footage. [[spoiler:The illusion is broken at the end after Ma-Ti takes down [[WebVideo/AskThatGuyWithTheGlasses Ask That Guy]] and reprimands the viewer for being sick enough to want to watch the titular act depicted.]]* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF-7jPXvPEA This fake trailer]] depicts what ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda Zelda]]'' would have been like as a Creator/JohnHughes-esque [[TheEighties Eighties]] teen movie. Bonus points for including period music, an Orion Pictures logo and VHS artifacts; if you ignore the obvious parody bits, you could ''easily'' mistake it for an actual '80s trailer from an old videocassette.* One of the more unnerving "photos" of SlenderMan is [[http://actualplay.roleplayingpublicradio.com/wp-content/uploads/Slender-Man-2.jpg designed]] to look like it was taken in the early [[TheNineties Nineties]]. Details of note include a date watermark and added graininess, the latter of which is more pronounced due to the camera distortions that always pop up when Slendy is around.* ''TheOnion'' published a book called "Our Dumb Century" featuring fake front pages of the paper throughout the 20th century starting in 1900.* For AprilFoolsDay 2011, Website/YouTube added a button that would turn the video you're watching into sepia tones, add jittering and scan lines, and replace the audio with jazz music. Its featured video that day was of a few of its most famous videos redone in this style.** Even more brilliantly: if you were watching a video that used [=YouTube's=] subtitle functionality, the text would appear as intertitles as in a silent film.* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' does this when Church is sent back in time. They use an earlier Creator/{{Bungie}} game, ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'', in place of the more modern ''Videogame/{{Halo}}'' engine for all the footage in that time period.** Also, there's the dramatic lens flare that show up in CGI episodes in Season 9.* The internet once claimed that Creator/OrsonWelles had made a movie adaptation of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''; although it was revealed to be an April Fool's joke perpetrated by Ain't It Cool News and Comics Should Be Good, but that didn't stop someone from making a rather believable [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu5tJGfZsgc two part trailer]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iU0Ivs55-Hw of the non-existent movie]].* [[http://www.traileraddict.com/trailer/watchmen/nbc-nightly-news-march-11-1970 This viral campaign ad]] from the ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'' [[Film/{{Watchmen}} film]], which adapted the comic's selections of [[FictionalDocument an in-series book]] ''Under The Hood'' in the form of a archived TV News report thereof.** If there were an early 1990s ''Watchmen'' cartoon, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YDDHHrt6l4w&feature=related this would be it.]]*** And in the ''Watchmen'' universe itself, that cartoon is something that Veidt Enterprises ''would conceivably have produced'' to market its toy action figures...* Ivan Guerrero's [[http://www.youtube.com/user/whoiseyevan "premakes"]] are trailers of modern films as they would have been if they'd been produced in the BMovie days circa 1950.* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zVPW40ygds4 A C64 version]] of Future Crew's ''Second Reality'' mega-demo.* Website/YouTube channel ''[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpvtp7mH0Cdq8FQUxcjDq0Q My Life in Gaming]]'' offers occasional "How to Beat" videos for contemporary video games done in the style of old game tips VHS tapes. In addition to using dated video effects and deliberately making the image look like VHS video (complete with tracking errors), the narration will frequently invoke CriticalResearchFailure in incidents both minor (such as mispronouncing in-game terms) and major (as seen in their [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zEO8XWeO5c Super Mario 3D World video]] that claims the game to be a set in [[VideoGame/SuperMarioBros2 SubCon]]).* [=YouTube=] parody video maker [=ChiefBrodyRules=] has made retraux VHS-style trailers for ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger'' and [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier its sequel]]. View them all [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FIy_GNN2Pc here,]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md9NTGZbGfY here,]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JY5eELnVISc here.]]* Similarly Website/YouTube creators ''[[http://www.youtube.com/user/OfficialTIGN The Insane Gamers]]'' made a VHS-style trailer for ''WesternAnimation/{{The Good Dinosaur}}''. See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=046wCM7N09k here.]]* [[http://vhsripstevenuniversescreencaps.tumblr.com/ This blog]] is dedicated to making screencaps and gifs of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' from rips of VHS recordings, making the footage look much older than it really is.* The "[[ArtShift digital]]" parts in "[[WebVideo/DontHugMeImScared Don't Hug Me I'm Scared 5]]" are made to look like awkward 1990s computer 3D graphics.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Western Animation]]* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' The creators admit a genuine love of fake-aging footage and such, and went through great lengths to get the Season 2 DVD to appear to be (but not actually be) worn and decades old, as if it had been in the trunk of somebody's car for 30 years. And the menu screens are done in the style of an old, old slide-show presentation of what people in TheSixties thought the future would be like. The third season was all shot in high definition in order to make the footage quirkier and grainier, not sharper or more vector-ey.** And the third-season DVD is presented in the style of an Atari 2600 game, down to the packaging and ''VideoGame/{{Pitfall}}''-style menu screens.* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E6ItchyAndScratchyTheMovie Itchy & Scratchy: The Movie]]" shows a vintage ''[[WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie Steamboat Itchy]]'' cartoon from 1928.** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS6E1BartOfDarkness Bart of Darkness]]" shows a black and white 1961 episode of ''The Krusty the Clown Show''. Krusty interviews George Meany on America's labor crisis.** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS7E18TheDayTheViolenceDied The Day the Violence Died]]" shows the first appearance of Itchy, in the black and white 1919 short ''[[WesternAnimation/OswaldTheLuckyRabbit Itchy the Lucky Mouse]]''.** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS8E13SimpsoncalifragilisticexpialaAnnoyedGruntcious Simpsoncalifragilisticexpialad'ohcious]]", the black and white cartoon playing in Homer's head is based on ''WesternAnimation/SteamboatWillie''.** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS23E16HowIWetYourMother How I Wet Your Mother]]", Bart Simpson's dream is animated in the same style as the Simpsons shorts from the Tracey Ullman Show of the late 80s.** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS19E20AllAboutLisa All About Lisa]]", The Krustketeers sing the Krusty Klub Theme, shown in black and white.** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS27E11TeenageMutantMilkCausedHurdles Teenage Mutant Milk-caused Hurdles]]", The "La-Z Rider Couch Gag" is a throwback to a more serious 80's animation style, with an overlay effect representing visible tracking lines from the worn and dirty video heads of a VHS player.* In fitting with the ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}''' backstory as characters locked away since the early days of animation, occasionally a "lost Creator/WarnerBros short" was aired that was done deliberately in the style of WB's original ''Bosko and Honey'' cartoons.** Additionally, one episode featured clips of the Warners guest-starring on such old cartoons as ''[[WesternAnimation/YogiBear Calhoon Capybara]]'', ''[[WesternAnimation/ScoobyDoo Oohooroo, Where Are You]]'', and ''[[WesternAnimation/FatAlbertAndTheCosbyKids Obese Orson]]''. For the clips, the producers carefully made sure the animators replicated the low-budget feel of the cartoons parodized.* The short-lived ''WesternAnimation/WhateverHappenedToRobotJones'' was deliberately drawn to resemble a late 1970s/early 1980s vintage cartoon.* ''WesternAnimation/HowToHookUpYourHomeTheater'' takes 1940s {{Goofy}} (including that famous LemonyNarrator) and puts him in a contemporary setting. You can read about this [[http://animated-views.com/2007/deja-and-henn-on-the-return-of-the-goof here]].* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':** There were a couple of Franchise/ScoobyDoo made-for-video movies in 2002-2003, ''Scooby-Doo and the Legend of the Vampire'' and ''Scooby-Doo and the Monster of Mexico'', that were deliberately done in a retro 1970s-esque style to resemble the old ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooWhereAreYou'' cartoon series (something that ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' and the other made-for-video movies generally avoided), even going as far as bringing back the original voice actresses for Daphne and Velma (as Creator/FrankWelker was already Fred and Scooby-Doo's main voice actor, and Creator/CaseyKasem was still available to voice Shaggy any time he was needed), using synth/keyboard remakes of the classic Scooby-Doo background music, featuring many of the old Hanna-Barbera sound effects and even putting the gang in their classic 1970s outfits and designing them in the same manner.** In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheCyberChase'', the gang is sucked into a video game about their adventures. In the final level they meet themselves (or rather, their video game doubles), who are drawn in the older style.** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryInc'' has clothing and animation styles similar to the first series.*** In the episode "The Mystery Solvers Club State Finals", the DreamSequence uses the original Creator/HannaBarbera designs, a sharp contrast to the new series' modern drawing style.** A flashback to Velma's childhood in ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' used recolored versions of the cartoonier ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo'' designs.** The 2010-era direct-to-DVD films use a style heavily inspired by the original series. For example, Daphne has SkintoneSclerae.* A short on one of the ''WesternAnimation/VeggieTales'' videos, ''Going Up'', is portrayed like a silent film... even though it still uses computer animation ''and'' is in color. The trope is played straighter in an alternate "unrestored" version, seen in the Bonus Features for its video (''Sumo of the Opera''), featuring it in Black and White, with film grain and damage. On the audio front, it lacks any and all sound effects, as well as the French Peas reading out the text cards in the normal version.* The Tinpo shorts on Creator/{{CBS}}' Kewlopolis block (which can also be seen online) use 8-bit style music (although one can also hear actual modern electric guitars on the soundtracks as well).** The music, incidentally, is by a band named Anamanaguchi, whose members actually write music using an NES music tracker and play the resulting code on ''an actual NES'', with electric guitars to accompany it. It's awesome stuff.* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': "The 'Good Old Days!'" had Timmy and his Grandpappy having a misadventure in an InkblotCartoonStyle world.* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', the crew watches a Harold Zoid silent ''[[SchizoTech hologram]]'' in black-and-white.** ''Futurama'' packaging and merchandise also often evokes {{Zeerust}} aesthetics (like some things in the show - Bender himself is an example).** The episode "Reincarnation" has three different segments each done in a different retro style: an early 1930s black and white cartoon, a 1980s 8-bit video game, and a 1970s anime.* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', the PreviouslyOn segments are done in the style of old movies, complete with a grainy sepia effect and and an overly-excited announcer.* The ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' movie ''Happiness Is a Warm Blanket, Charlie Brown'' is hand-drawn, has the same style as the classic series, and has voices to a similar effect of the originals.* ''WesternANimation/RegularShow'' has a very washed-out color scheme, the soundtrack is sourced from a lot of '80s bands, and the characters always play retro-styled video games on a UsefulNotes/SegaMasterSystem.* The 2011 ''Disney/WinnieThePooh'' film follows the style of the original shorts fairly closely, right down to details like photocopy lines and the backgrounds.* The short-lived ''WesternAnimation/CodeMonkeys'' was an animated series done completely in the style of an 8-bit video game, with the cast resembling characters from mid-80s Taito games such as ''Renegade'' and ''Mat Mania''.* The 2013 MickeyMouse shorts will be done in the style of the 1930's shorts as seen in the short [[http://video.disney.com/watch/croissant-de-triomphe-4d7b3aae690a98650d776d97 Croissant de Triomphe]].* ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7sxFyu_U2go This]]'' inane little romp into the imagination of Raymond Persi and Matthew Nastuk was made for the ''1999'' Vancouver Animation Festival. It was done 100% using nothing but what was available for animation in the early 30's, right down to the painted backgrounds and the grooving.* The 2013 MickeyMouse short ''WesternAnimation/GetAHorse'' (playing before ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' in theatres) was ''painstakingly'' created to look and sound like a late 1920s/early 1930s cartoon, including film scratches, cel mistakes, and poor quality soundtrack - even going as far to include archived clips of Creator/WaltDisney as Mickey's voice. [[spoiler:That is, before the [[PortalPicture cinema screen]] is ripped open, [[MediumBlending hand-drawn and CG animation come together]] and the fourth wall is not so much broken as it is shattered into a billion pieces.]]* The 1999 FracturedFairyTale short "The Fox, the Box and the Lox" (released in theaters with the LiveActionAdaptation of ''DudleyDoRight'') was animated in the same style as the original 1960s episodes.* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'':** Xyler and Craz are semi-recurring characters from a ShowWithinAShow called ''Dream Boy High'', which are sometimes seen in Mabel's imagination. Both it and their character designs have the blocky lines and garish color palette of an 80s cartoon like ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}''.** "Fight Fighters" features Rumble [=McSkirmish=], a video game character from the eponymous fighting game, [[RefugeeFromTVLand appearing in the real world]]. Rumble is styled after Ken, Ryu, and Sagat from ''VideoGame/StreetFighterII'' and rendered completely in 16-bit style graphics (by Paul Robertson, of course), complete with badly translated dialogue ("WINNERS DON'T LOSE!" "YOU CAN HIDE BUT YOU CANNOT HIDE!") and even physical limitations such as not being able to look up or [[HyperactiveSprite stand still]]. The game is quite old even in-universe: the arcade cabinet is covered in dust and was made before the fall of the Soviet Union.** "Soos and the Real Girl" features another old game, ''Romance Academy 7'', a PC DatingSim similar to ''Franchise/TokimekiMemorial'', apparently from the [=1990s=]. Like ''Fight Fighters'', it has sprite-animation by Paul Robertson and was poorly translated. However, its main character, Giffany, is [[AIIsACrapshoot smart enough]] to have learned proper English.* In ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'', Pinkie Pie's rap song in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS4E22TestingTesting123 Testing, Testing, 1, 2, 3]]" is clearly styled after a rap music video from the late-80s or early-90s, complete with looking like it was ripped from a VHS recording (fake scan lines, semi-blurry image quality, and the scene is presented in a 4:3 aspect ratio instead of the show's usual 16:9 widescreen). Crosses into StylisticSuck as the song itself feels more like a parody of cartoons from that era that liked to include rap music in an attempt to be TotallyRadical.* The ''[[{{WesternAnimation/Cars}} Mater's Tall Tales]]'' short "Time Travel Mater", has various old-time to represent the different periods where Mater and Lightning travel to. The film is sepia-toned when Mater meets Stanley, black-and-white when they go to when Stanley met Lizzie and then to two-strip Technicolor when they see Stanley and Lizzie get married.* ''WesternAnimation/MyLifeAsATeenageRobot'' is visually designed to look like an old Disney or Fleischer cartoon complete with the PieEyed pupil designs. It also makes heavy usage of ArtDeco in its title cards and a {{Zeerust}} style future.* Relentlessly mocked multiple times in ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy''. Examples include Wiggy Jiggy Jed from "Dream Mutt", a walking pastiche parody of snarky, fourth-wall breaking Creator/HannaBarbera characters complete with his own theme tune when he walks and cuing laughter from a live audience and the episode "Hill Billy" where the entire world becomes a UsefulNotes/GoldenAgeOfAnimation cartoon.* ''WesternAnimation/WaveTwisters'': Cover art and video game-like graphics convey Atari-era sensibilities.[[/folder]]

[[folder:Real Life]]* Many attractions at various Ride/DisneyThemeParks are painstakingly worked on to appear genuinely ancient or old. Like the Tower of Terror.** The entire point of theme park Silver Dollar City (near Branson, MO) is that it's supposed to be a mining town in the 1880-1900 time frame. One which happens to be paved almost entirely in asphalt, mind you, but the buildings are designed to appear rustic, weathered, and slapped together from available materials. In the shops and restaurants, they've even gone to the extent of building enclosures to hide the modern electronic cash registers, with only the electronic readout showing from the customer-facing side.* Consumer-level video editing programs such as iMovie and Windows Movie Maker have their share of effects that make things look brown ("Sepia"), old (old reel marks), or even very old (choppy action and faded borders). Of course, these are abused by amateur video makers.** Effects like those are even ''built into'' some camcorders; Sony's Digital-8 decks are a good example, as are some flash and DVD-based cameras. Needless to say, people who do serious video work tend to recommend not using them under any circumstances and doing all that sort of thing in postproduction.** Ditto for digital cameras, that very often include options to take pictures in sepia and/or in black-and-white. ** Digital filtering programs such as Instagram [[http://gizmodo.com/5827521/150000000-fake-vintage-photos-are-now-on-instagram achieve similar effects with still photography]].* "Vintage" T-shirts for sale at retail stores. Brand new shirts deliberately faded and cracked to look like they're 30 years old. Pre-ripped jeans also count.* Certain slot machines (mainly those manufactured by IGT) are still being made with mechanical reels and levers to pull, even though they're all run by computers now and these are no longer required. Many people prefer these for a more authentic experience. Even in Minnesota, where mechanical reels are not allowed, the video versions of these same games are still built with levers. Sadly, machines that dispense payout in coins/tokens (instead of tickets) are much rarer, if not extinct.* Computers and laptops built with false-wooden frames, buttons and similar accessories are fairly popular among various groups, particularly steampunk.** Along those lines is a remake of the Commodore 64. It has the same shell but with modern hardware and operating system. But it also includes a Commodore 64 emulator for the full experience.* Various architectural styles like Neoclassicism or Gothic Revival. Amusingly, the latter was a reaction to the former: Neoclassicism was seen as "Enlightenment" and "liberal" (in the old sense), so Romantics and (old-sense) conservatives [[StartMyOwn invented their own revival]] to counter it, drawing RomanticismVersusEnlightenment into the field of architecture in the ugliest (except for the buildings, ''all'' of which were beautiful) possible way. The debate didn't end until the Bauhaus-educated German Modernists, driven from UsefulNotes/NaziGermany for being "degenerate" (or worse, Jewish) came out of nowhere to destroy them both. (The Soviet Vkhutemas was doing much the same thing, but since they were DirtyCommunists they were ignored in the West).* Many alleys of Budapest's Inner City were redesigned to look 19th century, complete with lamp posts that look like gas lanterns.** The goal of the Margaret Bridge's reconstruction was explicitly to restore the bridge to its 1936 design.* Reliced musical instruments. Fender is particularly guilty of releasing guitars and basses that are purposely beaten and aged in the factory that look like they have 50 years worth of abuse on them. This is also the entire business model of Nash guitars, which are really beat up Fender copies for about twice the price of new Fenders. Needless to say there is quite a bit of [[BrokenBase contention amongst guitarists]] as to whether this is an affordable alternative to vintage instruments that can run up to $70,000 a piece or if they are bought by posers who want their guitars to look worn without actually putting the work into having a guitar get that beat up through touring and playing constantly.** There's also another aspect to this. From the 50s to the 70s all instruments used nitrocellulose lacquer, but as it was rather hazardous, polyurethane is the standard finish today. Nitro is very "fragile" and easily comes off and ages very nicely (fading, yellowing and so on). This is why real vintage guitars have a special sort of relic to them. Polyester on the other hand is very hard and thick, has no real aging and hardly ever comes off, which makes getting a played in feeling with many modern guitars is close to impossible. It's thick and goopy and dampens the sound, but protects the instrument and offers a wider selection of colors. Polyurethane is somewhere between nitro and polyester -- only a little bit thicker than nitro so it doesn't kill your harmonics, but with durability and color choices comparable to polyester. It still doesn't age quite the same, and opinions vary as to whether that's good or bad. Still, it's generally considered an acceptable compromise.** On the subject of musical instruments, there's also been a movement in classical music called "historical performance practice" which is exactly what it sounds like - to use certain styles of instruments and vocal techniques to perform early music works as they would have sounded at the time of their premieres. When instrumentalists aren't playing on actual older instruments (like those of the various Cremona violin makers in the 17th century), they build new ones with the style and sound of older ones.* Doritos re-released three chip flavors (Taco, Sour Cream & Onion, and Salsa Rio) that they discontinued in the 1970s or 80s in 2012, and put them in bags made to look like the bag design from that era as well. In Canada, they reissued the discontinued Ketchup flavor for a while in early 2015.* The car industry has many examples of faux-retro models.** Chevrolet Camaro** Dodge Challenger** Fiat New 500** Ford Mustang** New Mini** Nissan 350Z/370Z** Nissan Figaro** Plymouth Prowler** VW New Beetle** Citroen C3 (although this one is not an upmarket design model).** Daihatsu Sirion** Chrysler PT Cruiser** Chevrolet HHR* Part of Harley-Davidson's appeal is in motorcycles that resemble those from the old days, particularly those from the Fourties and Fifties, but with modern conveniences added such as the softail rear suspension made to look like the rigid frames of yore. Add to the fact that the engines used on Big Twins aren't really that far removed from the original Knucklehead of 1936; the Twin Cam is an all-new design, but it's still conceptually similar.* Though more subtle than most, there has traditionally been a lot of demand for "film look" coming from digital video cameras, to the point of making things like 24p frame rates standard even on relatively low-end camcorders. The adoption of DSLR cameras like the Canon 5DmkII specifically aimed to duplicate the depth-of-field effects film cameras traditionally give by using standard interchangeable lenses and large image sensors; the jury is still out as to whether "film look" has been truly achieved for The Rest of Us, or if its proponents have created a new, unique DSLR look.* Pepsi and Mountain Dew Throwback use cane sugar instead of the high-fructose corn syrup found in modern soft drinks (in countries where the latter has replaced sugar). They also feature vintage brand logos on the packaging.* The UsefulNotes/{{Seattle}} Space Needle celebrated its fiftieth anniversary in 2012. As part of the celebration, the whole thing was painted the "only in the 60's" shade of "Galaxy Gold" paint that it was during the 1962 World's Fair.* In the 1990s, UsefulNotes/McDonalds built several locations in the style of their earliest restaurants. Many of these had only walk-up service, just like the earliest ones.* Verbatim produces blank "Vinyl" CD's, that look like CD-sized vinyl records. The packaging encourages customers to put their old music on the CD's for a classic feel.* A few years ago a bunch of breakfast cereals, such as Frosted Flakes and Lucky Charms, went retro by selling them in their much older box designs.* The [[http://dev.randyregier.com/portfolio/ art of Randy Regier]] consists of authentically crafted vintage/Atomic Age toys, complete with the occasional aging, packaging, printed media and shopfront setups, that range from high quality (i.e. "[=The ToyGantic=]" and "Go Fast Daddy-0"), to intentionally shoddy (i.e. the John Manshaft line and "Electric Man Waiting for a Train Set") and absurd (i.e. the "Blazing Sun Model" and "Tardy the Manpony").* It's fairly common in Indonesian to intentionally write using the spelling pre-[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_Indonesian_Spelling_System EYD]] to give an old, Dutch-occupation era feel (even though the EYD was released in 1972, more than 20 years after the Dutch surrendered). For example, the Dutch restaurant specializing in Indonesian cuisine called "Tempo Doeloe" (roughly translated to "past" or "the good old days") -- the proper spelling is actually "Tempo Dulu". * There seem to be literally dozens of applications for adding a rotary phone dial to a smartphone.* ''8mm'' is a app that simulates Super 8 8mm analog home movie effects for use on iPhone camera videos. Celebrities such as Music/HilaryDuff and SelenaGomez have (according to WordOfGod) used it for effect on Website/{{Instagram}} videos.* Many airlines have at least one plane in their fleet painted in a retro livery. Either one from the airline, or from an airline that has been amalgamated into the current brand that the airline owns the rights to. American Airlines for example has several planes in their 1960s livery, US Air has liveries from Pacific Southwest Air (PSA), Allegheny and Piedmont (all defunct), and British Airways has painted one plane in 1970s livery with plain "British" logo on the fuselage.* [[http://www.dvdtalk.com/reviews/60074/wizard-of-oz-the/ This review]] of ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' on the CED format, written in 2013 from the point of view of a 1981 reviewer who took on the then-new CED release from Creator/MGMCBSHomeVideo.* A number of toy and model kit manufacturers over the years have released older items in current packaging, designed to remind one of the old packaging. Hot Wheels Redliners are still available in some places, Matchbox once released a series of diecasts in modern blister packaging but with a little box similar to their oldest form of packaging included, and Round 2 Models, who own a few of the older brand names of model kits known to older Americans, often use the original box art for kits first released in the 1960s, unless there are legal issues to work around (such as losing the licence for ''LiveActionTV/TheMunsters'' while still being allowed to sell the kits of the cars). One problem with that is that the kits haven't been re-tooled since they first came out, such that the tooling is as old as the hills. Another example is the reproduction lithographed tinplate toys currently being released solely for the collector's market.* You can still have a house built in older styles from the 19th century onwards; [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queenslander_%28architecture%29 Queenslanders]], for example, are still being built, albeit with current materials and techniques, and are available in many styles echoing the older styles, including Victorian, Federation, Edwardian, and Ashgrovian (a 20th-century style adapted from American California bungalows.)* Gentrification or renovation of large urban areas can lead to large-scale renewal of some of the oldest parts of a city, as the place is done up to attract people with fresh paint, unbroken windows, and verandahs and awnings overhanging the footpath that no longer look like they're going to collapse on top of you when you walk under them, and to celebrate the history of the area. Some of these can go a bit far in their presentation, as they are given extra atmosphere by means some might consider an excessive amount of faux-historical packaging, such as [[http://thoughtengine.deviantart.com/art/Street-Buildings-in-Townsville-550593820 Flinders]] [[http://thoughtengine.deviantart.com/art/View-of-Flinders-Street-Townsville-551317217 Street East]] (second picture sepiatoned in [=GiMP=]) in Townsville, Queensland; the road is designed to make horse-like clopping sounds when cars are driven along the street.* The British electronics store Maplin is selling a reproduction UsefulNotes/{{ZXSpectrum}}, with in-built bluetooth 3.0 and HDMI television compatibility. It looks exactly the same as the original 48K version.* Many old towns in Europe where either entirely leveled or significantly damaged by bombings in World War II. While some were redesigned in the then modern "car friendly" style (now [[DeaderThanDisco widely decried as an abomination against urbanism]]), some were then or have been since rebuilt in the original style, more or less faithfully. One of the best known is probably the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dresden_Frauenkirche Frauenkirche]] in Dresden that was rebuilt faithfully except for the weird placement of the original stones (distinguished by their blackened appearance which is neither due to fire nor due to pollution but owed to age) - in 2005. However, infill development in those neighborhoods is also often also built "in the original style" which may or may not work, but is often vastly preferred to some "hyper modern" glass palace in the midst of buildings centuries old.[[/folder]]----